Recent content by Violet22

I have 2 Golden White Layers from Metzers. They are drakes, and they are nice ducks, they don't fight with any one, in fact, they are wusses, last year I had to introduce some new ducks, and they ran and hid and made my girls do the fighting! They are pure white not a dirty white. They are...

She has been sitting forever, I should have had ducklings by now. I had better candle the eggs she has rolled out and also the ones she is sitting on. I hope there are some viable ones, I really want her babies and really don't want to make her mad if she comes back to an empty nest. But I don't...

Thank you! I wasn't sure, this being my first year dealing with this. So, it's pretty much safe to remove the eggs she has pushed out?

I have Golden White Layers which look just like Pekins to me, and I just love them too! I love having the big white ducks, I love all my other ducks, and the Runners are my favorite breed, but I couldn't imagine not having any all white ducks around.

This is probably a silly question........when a duck is sitting on her nest and the duckling starts hatching out of it's egg, does she still sit on it, or does she push it out to let it continue hatching. Does she push them out right before they start hatching? I didn't know if they pushed eggs...

Ok, I have 2 runners I got as adults, super skittish and hate me. They had one baby and left it all alone at a day old.......my teenage ducks tried to kill it. My fault, my adults never bothered the first babies, so I didn't think I'd have a problem this time. Didn't count on the teenagers being...

No real duck house, just dog houses! But here is my enclosure. I still haven't tidied it up, cutting all the cable ties neatly....I am slowly replacing them with metal cage rings. It's not super pretty, esp the roof, but it works and the ducks are happy! Soon, I will add a bigger pool with a...

Quote: I died when I saw this! "Duck refused medical attention" I think I am going to order the first one you posted and put it on my pen!

I love it!! When I finally put my larger pool in, (it's been sitting here for a year!), I am going to do this. I have lots of scrap wood around, and you have motivated me to try this.....seeing it helps a lot, thanks for posting pics!

One of my runners was/is an excellent mommy.......never left the nest for the first few days of the babies being hatched and guarded them with her life after that, they are almost 2 months old now, and she still hangs around keeping an eye on them. My other runners which I got as adults, are...

I guess everyone has different experiences with their ducks............mine is, I have 8 females and 2 drakes. NOT enough females! Maybe my drakes have too much testosterone, but I feel so bad for all my girls. The drakes never stop harassing them....it's constant one after the other. I wonder...

I think they will calm down, all my ducks did that..........runners, harlequins, white layers. I think it's just a phase...........I hope, and you didn't just get skittery ones. Give it some time, I remember it took weeks for mine to settle down........I can't remember exactly, but I am thinking...

With Metzers you can order less than 10, but it costs a little more. I only ordered 6 and they put a little heat pack in with them, and they arrived healthy and happy.

I am not a duck expert, this is only my first year with them, but I have done tons of research, a lot of which may be bogus! What I have found, is people feed all kinds of things and the ducks do fine. I keep males and females together and free feed, and was told the drakes shouldn't have layer...

I forget Alfalfa isn't commonly used everywhere, I had never heard of Timothy hay until I read some where about giving it to ducks. I think it's an East Coast, West Coast thing, tho I did actually see a post for Timothy hay on Craigslist last year........after 25 years of having a horse on...